Sachin Rawat
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I am a freelance science writer based in Bangalore, India. While I got my start writing about biotechnology, something that I studied at university, I now cover science and technology more broadly.
And I like it that way because, as tiring the cliche is, science is interdisciplinary. Every now and then, my work allows me a glimpse of some of these connections that researchers are making now. Like how saving tigers benefits the climate or burning iron in space is paving the way to cleaner energy on Earth.
I have contributed articles to Big Think, Asian Scientist, Labiotech.eu, and SynBioBeta, in addition to writing for a bunch of other publications. In 2022, I received a National Press Foundation grant for covering rare diseases. A selection of my bylines is on this page.
If you have any questions or tips, or if you’d like to commission me, please write to me at rawatsachin27 at gmail dot com. I'm also reachable on Twitter and LinkedIn. Source
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Recent Articles
Search Articles2025 Roundup: Bats, squid, and icebergs
Another year of quiet on this blog. But elsewhere, I got to write about fascinating stuff ranging from bats and neuroscience to icebergs. Here are five stories that I had the most fun researching and writing in 2025. If you like hot sauce and are expecting a milder sauce, say, because it’s labeled so, your rating of the heat level would likely be lower than that for an unlabeled bottle of the same sauce.
Diversifying genomics
Africa has a high burden of chronic kidney disease, with prevalence rates much higher than in developed countries. Many patients don’t even realize they are living with the disease. But when Segun Fatumo, head of Non-Communicable Diseases Genomics at MRC Uganda, and his team wanted to look into the genetic drivers behind this high prevalence, they realized that there was insufficient genetic or kidney function data across the entire continent.
2024 Roundup: Rare, sleep, and heat
Like all years, 2024 flew by fast. Like all years before, and for everyone, it flew by faster than every year before. Neuroscience suggests that's because our brains process fewer moments, and less vividly, as we age. In other words, we make fewer memories per unit time and it may seem that little happened more recently, even when that is not the case. Although there's no way to fight this phenomenon, intentionally seeking new experiences helps.
Cool new ways to store and retrieve data in DNA
The world today generates mind-bogglingly insane amounts of data. Think of all of us on the internet, science experiments with a gazillion digital files, and connected devices that constantly talk to each other. And as we generate more data every year than the year before, we could run out of both space and energy for data centres to store this data. Storing data in DNA, in principle, is an incredible alternative.
Out-Musseled by Microplastics
If you eat seafood, microplastics are likely in your diet. Seafoods that are consumed whole, like mussels, have higher levels of microplastics. This is because since marine organisms ingest microplastics, it’s their guts where the microplastics’ journey in the food chain begins. We don’t know for sure how bad that is for us: most studies of the impact of microplastics on human health are still early. Microplastics don't impact individual mussels. That’s because they poop most of it out.
New Blog and 2023 Roundup
Stress in the city September 11th 2023 The new field of urban endocrinology is exploring how animals use hormones to adapt to life in city environments, writes Sachin Rawat On a spring afternoon in 2021, Carl, an infamous coyote at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, was walking past oblivious picnic-goers. His eyes were fixed on something and he had a prowling gait. The subject of Carl’s interest was a small child sitting with his father. With teeth bared he lunged for the boy.